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Kevin Costner

One of Hollywood's most prominent strong, silent types, Kevin Costner was for several years the celluloid personification of the baseball industry, given his indelible mark with baseball-themed hits like Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and For Love of the Game. His epic Western Dances with Wolves marked the first break from this trend and established Costner as a formidable directing talent to boot. Although several flops in the late '90s diminished his bankability, for many, Costner remained one of the industry's most enduring and endearing icons.A native of California, Costner was born January 18, 1955, in Lynnwood. While a marketing student at California State University in Fullerton, he became involved with community theater. Upon graduation in 1978, Costner took a marketing job that lasted all of 30 days before deciding to take a crack at acting. After an inauspicious 1974 film debut in the ultra-cheapie Sizzle Beach USA, Costner decided to take a more serious approach to acting. Venturing down the usual theater-workshop, multiple-audition route, the actor impressed casting directors who weren't really certain of how to use him. That may be one reason why Costner's big-studio debut in Night Shift (1982) consisted of little more than background decoration, and the same year's Frances featured the hapless young actor as an off-stage voice.Director Lawrence Kasdan liked Costner enough to cast him in the important role of the suicide victim who motivated the plot of The Big Chill (1983). Unfortunately, his flashback scenes were edited out of the movie, leaving all that was visible of the actor -- who had turned down Matthew Broderick's role in WarGames to take the part -- to be his dress suit, along with a fleeting glimpse of his hairline and hands as the undertaker prepared him for burial during the opening credits. Two years later, a guilt-ridden Kasdan chose Costner for a major part as a hell-raising gunfighter in the "retro" Western Silverado (1985), this time putting him in front of the camera for virtually the entire film. He also gained notice for the Diner-ish buddy road movie Fandango. The actor's big break came two years later as he burst onto the screen in two major films, No Way Out and The Untouchables; his growing popularity was further amplified with a brace of baseball films, released within months of one another. In Bull Durham (1988), the actor was taciturn minor-league ballplayer Crash Davis, and in the following year's Field of Dreams he was Ray Kinsella, a farmer who constructs a baseball diamond in his Iowa cornfield at the repeated urging of a voice that intones "if you build it, he will come."Riding high on the combined box-office success of these films, Costner was able to make his directing debut. With a small budget of 18 million dollars, he went off to the Black Hills of South Dakota to film the first Western epic that Hollywood had seen in years, a revisionist look at American Indian-white relationships titled Dances With Wolves (1990). The supposedly doomed project, in addition to being one of '90s biggest moneymakers, also took home a slew of Academy Awards, including statues for Best Picture and Best Director (usurping Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas).Costner's luck continued with the 1991 costume epic Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; this, too, made money, though it seriously strained Costner's longtime friendship with the film's director, Kevin Reynolds. The same year, Costner had another hit -- and critical success -- on his hands with Oliver Stone's JFK. The next year's The Bodyguard, a film which teamed Costner with Whitney Houston, did so well at the box office that it seemed the actor could do no wrong. However, his next film, A Perfect World (1993), directed by Clint Eastwood and casting the actor against type as a half-psycho, half-benign prison escapee, was a major disappointment, even though Costner himself garnered some acclaim. Bad luck followed Perfect World in the form of another cast-a

But you don't want me. I'm surprised. Thorough fellow like yourself. Why stop at one sister when you could have fucked them both?

Frank Farmer:

I make my mistakes.

Nikki Marron:

But you didn't say no to the boss.

Woman in Green:

(approaching Frank) I've been watching you all night from across the room.

Woman in Green:

I've been watching you all night from across the room.

Frank Farmer:

Why don't you go back there. Keep watching.

Rachel Marron:

Are you afraid, I might get picked off in my snazzy running suit?

Frank Farmer:

No, I'm afraid that I might have to jog with you.

Sue Barlow:

So is it marriage that scares you two, or puttin' down roots?

Boss Spearman:

No. Who'd have him? All rangy and mangy like a rough old dog.

Charley Waite:

How about I hold your head under water for just a little while?

Boss Spearman:

Sounds like you got it all worked out.

Charley Waite:

Yeah, except the part where we don't get killed.

Charley Waite:

Men are gonna get killed here today, Sue, and I'm gonna kill 'em.

Bessie Earp:

We are your wives. Don't we ever count more than the damn brothers?

Wyatt Earp:

No, Bessie, you don't. Wives come and go, that's the plan truth of it. They run off. They die.

Wyatt Earp:

You'd be doing me a favor if you called me Wyatt or Earp, but not both.

Doc Holliday:

What do you wanna do?

Wyatt Earp:

Kill them all.

Wyatt Earp:

You've been a good friend to me, Doc.

Doc Holliday:

Shut up.

William Harper:

Could you wipe that" Boy Scout at his first field trip" grin off your face for a second?

Jonathan Kent:

"You have to choose who the man will be, Clark.

Jonathan Kent:

You have to choose who the man will be, Clark.

Rachel Marron:

What's going on, Frank?

Frank Farmer:

I wanna keep it straight in my head what job I'm doing.

Rachel Marron:

And what is that exactly? Making me feel like shit?

Rachel Marron:

And I wanna be able to brunch with my friends

Frank Farmer:

So go on Tuesdays.

Sy Spector:

Tuesday morning brunch? Where'd you get this guy, Bill?

Frank Farmer:

This house is wide open.

Sy Spector:

Excuse me?

Frank Farmer:

I said this house is wide open and you people have no clue what real security is or what it takes to achieve it.

Rachel Marron:

Will you grab that jacket for me? The red one, please?

Frank Farmer:

I'm here to keep you alive, not help you shop.

Fletcher Marron:

What are you afraid of?

Frank Farmer:

I'm af - I'm afraid of not being there.

Frank Farmer:

We're adding to your duties. You're my new assistant.

Henry:

Says who?

Frank Farmer:

Henry, I've spent a lot of time guarding people all over the world, I've found one thing to be true - no matter how incompetent the assassins, no matter how much they miss their target, there's always one person who always gets hit.

Henry:

Who?

Frank Farmer:

The cocky black chauffeur.

Rachel Marron:

Well, you don't look like a bodyguard.

Frank Farmer:

What'd you expect?

Rachel Marron:

Well, I don't know, maybe a tough guy?

Frank Farmer:

This is my disguise.

Frank Farmer:

Yeah... the atomic number of zinc is thirty.

Frank Farmer:

Alexander Graham Bell, to see Miss Marron.

Sy Spector:

Bill said that you used to be with the Secret Service.

Frank Farmer:

That's right.

Sy Spector:

Ever guard the main man?

Frank Farmer:

I was two years with Carter, four with Reagan.

Sy Spector:

Reagan got shot!

Frank Farmer:

Not on my shift.

Rachel Marron:

And you're ready to die for me?

Frank Farmer:

It's the job.

Rachel Marron:

And you'd do it? Why?

Frank Farmer:

I can't sing.

Frank Farmer:

Aw, Christ, I told you why! I - I can't protect you like this.

Rachel Marron:

So that's it for me? That's it?

Frank Farmer:

Yeah.

Rachel Marron:

Well, I don't believe it!

Frank Farmer:

Well, you can live with it, or you can fire me.

Rachel Marron:

But I can't fuck you.

Frank Nitti:

Your friend screamed like a irish pig (Ness throws him of the roof)

Frank Nitti:

Your friend screamed like a Irish pig.

Eliot Ness:

Did he sound anything like that

Eliot Ness:

Did he sound anything like that?

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

[writing in his diary] If it wasn't for my companion, I believe I'd be having the time of my life.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

If it wasn't for my companion, I believe I'd be having the time of my life.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

Dunbar, not Dumb Bear.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero.

Mariner:

How much is that tomato plant, biatch?

Jonathan Kent:

You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark. Whoever that man is, he's going to change the world.

Jonathan Kent:

You are my son. But somewhere out there you have another father, and he sent you here for a reason. And even if it takes you the rest of your life, you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is.

Jonathan Kent:

And i have to believe that you were sent here for a reason. And even if it takes the rest of your life, you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is.

Jonathan Kent:

I have to believe that you were sent here for a reason. And even if it takes the rest of your life, you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is.

Jonathan Kent:

You're the answer, son. The answer to "are we alone in the universe".

Superman:

(Young Clark Kent) Can't I just keep pretending to be your son?

Superman:

Can't I just keep pretending to be your son?

Jonathan Kent:

You are my son.

Eliot Ness:

Never stop fighting till the fight is done

Eliot Ness:

Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

Jim Garrison:

I Don't Have Much Of A Case.

Jim Garrison:

I don't have much of a case.

Jim Garrison:

Is That Why?

Jim Garrison:

Is that why?

Jim Garrison:

Who Killed The President?

Jim Garrison:

Who killed the president?

Jim Garrison:

It May Become A Generational Affair.

Jim Garrison:

They might even push it back then, hell it may become a generational affair.

You're not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You'll have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's going to change the world.

Himself:

Kevin Costner: Thanks for having us. It was really generous.

Kevin Costner:

Thanks for having us. It was really generous.

Herself:

Madonna: Thanks for coming.

Madonna:

Thanks for coming.

Himself:

Kevin Costner: We thought it was "neat".

Kevin Costner:

We thought it was 'neat'.

Herself:

Madonna: "Neat"?

Madonna:

'Neat'?

Himself:

Kevin Costner: Really neat.

Kevin Costner:

Really neat.

Herself:

Madonna: No one's ever described it as that.

Madonna:

No one's ever described it as that.

Jonathan Kent:

Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's gonna change the world

Jonathan Kent:

Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's gonna change the world.

Duncan:

Sherwood Forest is haunted, sire!

Robin of Locksley/Robin Hood:

Then either we take our chances with the ghosts or become ghosts ourselves.

Billy Chapel:

[repeated line] I can always tell when I'm in New York.

Jane Aubrey:

You ever gotten your heart broken?

Billy Chapel:

Yeah. When we lost the pennant in '87.

Billy Chapel:

[consoling Mickey Hart after an embarrasing play] There's a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we're in Boston, we'll go out there and work the wall together. Don't help them make a joke out of you.

Billy Chapel:

[consoling Mickey Hart after an embarrasing play] There's a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we're in Boston, we'll go out there and work the wall together. Don't help them make a joke out of you.

Billy Chapel:

I don't know if I have anything left.

Gus Osinski:

You just throw whatever you got, whatever's left. The boys are all here for you. We're gonna be awesome for you right now!

Jane Aubrey:

What if my face was all scraped off and I was totally disfigured and had no arms and legs and I was completely paralyzed. Would you still love me?

Billy Chapel:

No. But we could still be friends.

Billy Chapel:

[repeated line - his trick for concentration] Clear the mechanism.

Jim Garrison:

I'm sorry this has to end inconveniently for you, David. But I'm gonna have to detain you for further questioning by the FBI

David Ferrie:

Why?

Irvin F Dymond:

I find your story simply not believable.

David Ferrie:

Really? What part?

Jonathan Kent:

It's not from this world, Clark. And neither are you.

Jonathan Kent:

You just have to decide what type of man you want to grow up to be, Clark. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's going to change the world.

Jonathan Kent:

It's not from the Earth, Clark. And neither are you.

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money. It was the game... The sounds, the smells. Did you ever hold a ball or a glove to your face?

Ray Kinsella:

Yeah.

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

I used to love travelling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

Ray Kinsella:

I bet it's good to be playing again, huh?

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that been dust for over fifty years. That was me. I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet... The thrill of the grass.

Ray Kinsella:

The only thing we had in common was that she was from Iowa, and I had once heard of Iowa.

John Kinsella:

Is this heaven?

Ray Kinsella:

It's Iowa.

John Kinsella:

Iowa? I could have sworn this was heaven.

John Kinsella:

Oh yeah. It's the place where dreams come true.

Ray Kinsella:

[Ray looks around, seeing his wife playing with their daughter on the porch] Maybe this is heaven.

Ray Kinsella:

So what do you want now?

Terence Mann:

I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. I want my privacy.

Ray Kinsella:

No, I mean, what do you WANT? [gestures to the concession stand they're in front of]

Terence Mann:

Oh. Dog and a beer.

Ray Kinsella:

The Voice is back.

Annie Kinsella:

Oh, Lord. You're supposed to build a football field now?

Terence Mann:

I'm going to beat you with a crowbar until you leave.

Ray Kinsella:

You can't do that.

Terence Mann:

There are rules here? No, there are no rules here.
[advances with crowbar]

Ray Kinsella:

You're a pacifist!

Terence Mann:

[stops] Shit.

Annie Kinsella:

Hey, what is the Voice calls when you're gone?

Ray Kinsella:

Take a message.

Rachel Marron:

You afraid I might get picked off in my snazzy running suit?

Frank Farmer:

No, I'm afraid that I might have to jog with you.

Ray Kinsella:

We're keeping this field.

Ray Kinsella:

Is this heaven?
Ray: This is Iowa

Ray Kinsella:

This is Iowa.

Garret Blake:

Theresa! I don't want to lose you.

Theresa Osborne:

Then don't.

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

"Hey, you wanna come with us?"

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Hey, you wanna come with us?

Ray Kinsella:

"You mean it?"

Ray Kinsella:

You mean it?

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

"Not you, him."

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Not you, him.

Ray Kinsella:

"Him?"

Ray Kinsella:

Him?

Terence Mann:

"Come with you?"

Terence Mann:

Come with you?

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

"Out there."

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Out there.

Terence Mann:

"What is out there?"

Terence Mann:

What is out there?

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

"Come find out."

Shoeless Joe Jackson:

Come find out.

Billy Chapel:

[to himself, pitching to a Yankee batter] Sam Tuttle. I can't think of a better reason not to be a Yankee.

Crash Davis:

Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

Jim Garrison:

Maybe Oswald's exactly what he said he was: A patsy.

Jim Garrison:

Maybe Oswald's exactly what he said he was: a patsy.

The Postman:

Things I like about my ass...

The Postman:

The things I like about my ass...

Rachel Marron:

Can I get you anything?.

Rachel Marron:

Can I get you anything?

Frank Farmer:

Orange juice!.

Frank Farmer:

Orange juice!

Rachel Marron:

Straight?.

Rachel Marron:

Straight?

Frank Farmer:

"The people who hire me, they don't have to be convinced to save their own lives."

Frank Farmer:

The people who hire me, they don't have to be convinced to save their own lives.

Eliot Ness:

Reporter: They say they're going to repeal Prohibition. What will you do then?
Ness: I think I'll have a drink.

Reporter:

They say they're going to repeal Prohibition. What will you do then?

Catherine Ness:

I think I'll have a drink.

Jack Dolan:

Can I be honest with you Bobby? You should take that job. You're a shitty carpenter.

Jim Garrison:

Were you a contract agent for the CIA?

Clay Shaw:

And if I were do you think I would be sitting here today talking to someone like you?

Charley Waite:

Sue, how is this ever going to work if you don't do what I say?

Butch Haynes:

I need me a time machine with a loud radio to take me where I'm going.

Jack Dolan:

You know if things get tough, I can always use some extra help this winter.

The Postman:

I know you... you're famous.

Bridge City Mayor:

I once was. Sort of. Not anymore.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

Dunbar, not Dumb Bear.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero.

Lt. John W. Dunbar:

The strangeness of this life cannot be measured: in trying to produce my own death, I was elevated to the status of a living hero.